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SciFi idea database
Because I can't read well enough to slog my way through long badly written novels to get beautiful core ideas. Will somebody please just tell me the ideas? | |
I love scifi ideas but I can't be assed to wade through all the
crappy books that are written around them. What I would
like
is a database of scifi ideas that I can look up by keyword,
subject, author etc.
I love the idea that there could be a ring world but I dont
want to wade through
a whole book to find out about the
idea.
I bet you 10 billion post singularity dollars that within a
month
of the creation of a freely accessible database like this
there
will be some huge jump iin technology like someone will
come
up with faster than light travel by associating two random
ideas that were formerly hidden in long scifi novels.
Is there already a database out there like this?
Of course I am a communist.
Inventions and Ideas from Science Fiction Books and Movies
http://technovelgy.com/index.htm
Explore the wide variety of inventions and ideas of science fiction writers - over 800 are available on
Technovelgy (that's tek-novel-gee!). [doomsayer, May 14 2005]
[link]
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There's a book called The Science of Science Fiction by Peter Nichols which covers a lot of this ground, including the author's assessment of the actual feasibility or likelihood of some science fiction effects or contraptions ever actually becoming fact. I couldn't find it at Amazon, but there's an ebay auction for this book that ends 1.9 days from .... now. |
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I'd like a version that condenses the premise. Star Wars: Everybody fights this guy wearing a black helmet. Star Trek: These guys explore the universe and aliens kill the crew members in red shirts. Ship's doctor tells the captain they're dead. Dr Who: This guy walks around. Apparently he's a doctor or something. Moby Dick: While not science fiction, a fish goes nuts and kills everybody. War and Peace: Concludes that there is a minimum of free choice; all is ruled by an inexorable historical determinism while a pissy little runt Frenchman runs around breaking things. |
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Star Trek: Jim gets a shag, Spock nearly smiles and Bones declares someone is dead. |
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[JezusHChrist], I am a communist also.+ |
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Thousands of well-written stories, simply requiring the patience to absorb them. Ten times as many poorly written stories, just waiting to sadden you. |
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For me, the written word is my primary form of entertainment. Photos and movies follow. Different people have different preferred intake modes. |
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The technological influences are one aspect - the real story lies in how the technology influences the way people react. That would be a much harder thing to sum up in a database. |
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